X158: Culture of College

• Full Semester Course
• 3 Credit Hours
• Letter Graded
• For information related to current sections, dates, and times, you can consult the Schedule of Classes under OneStart. When using the Schedule of Classes to review any current section listing of courses on campus, you will need to know the department (EDUC) and course number (X158) and title (Culture of College).

Developed to meet the needs of students who are on academic probation or critical academic probation, the X158 program consists of a two credit hour course and a wide range of student support services. While there have been various factors that have contributed to a student's past academic problems such as medical absence, personal and financial problems, or difficulty in balancing social and academic responsibilities, the fact remains that each student has met the basic admission requirments of Indiana University and is capable of successfully completing a chosen degree program. To this end, X158 is constructed to promote academic and personal success so that students persist and complete their college degree.

How is X158 Organized?

• Support from an Experienced Course Instructor: Instructors create classroom experiences that help students develop a practical understanding of the learning process at the university level. Further, they assist students in understanding how they learn best and how to apply this knowledge to different kinds of courses. Instructors hold weekly conferences with each student to discuss the implementation of goals, ways to make use of the many resources for learning on campus, and finally ways that each student can apply strategies covered in class for academic and personal success
• Support from a Peer Instructor: Students who have successfully completed X158 and have reclaimed academic good standing with the University serve as Peer Instructors. Peer Instructors assist new X158 students to explore practical ways of achieving goals and integrating course concepts into their academic and personal lives from the student perspective.
• Support from a Counseling Intern: Gradutate students working as Counseling Interns help students explore the more personal side of developing the strategies needed to meet the demands of their contracts and to persist as successful college s tudents.
• Support from University Division and Other Academic Support Units: Students in the program benefit from a close working relationship between X158 Staff and Academic Support units across campus. Students become familiarized with and are encouraged to make use of such service units as the Career Development Cen ter, the Student Health Center, and various other campus tutorial programs.